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proclamation to Lt. William Shubert of the Warner Robins
Fire Dept., commending him for his outstanding courage
above and beyond the call of duty, as evidenced by his
Gibes from Hollywood great
By Dick Kleiner
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
The men who made
Hollywood great are dis
appearing. Only Darryl
Zanuck and Jack Warner re
main from the original crowd
of producing moguls, and
there are only a handful of the
directing geniuses left from
the golden days.
One of them is Rouben
Mamoulian. At 78, he is still
forceful and youthful, full of
strong opinions and stronger
feelings He hasn’t done a film
since 1962 — and that was
when he started "Cleopatra,”
but subsequently was replac
ed — and probably won’t do
any more.
It’s not that he wouldn't like
to, or couldn't handle the job
physically or artistically, it’s
simply that he has no use for
most of today’s movies.
“I haven’t seen a script I’ve
liked in a long, long time,”
Mamoulian says. “Most of
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them, I wouldn’t touch with a
flagpole.”
He hasn't worked on
Broadway, either. It was
there that Mamoulian may
have achieved his greatest
distinction, directing the
original “Oklahoma!,” the
musical that changed the
whole trend of the theater.
Actually, through his
Hollywood career, which
spanned more than 30 years,
Mamoulian directed relative
ly few films.
“I only made 16 pictures,”
he says. “Most people would
say I’d done more, but I
haven’t. Only 16.”
He would go back and forth,
between Broadway and
Hollywood. That kept the
number of his films down.
Another thing that was self
limiting was his high stan
dards.
“I never did anything on
Broadway or Hollywood,” he
says, “that I didn't feel
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ROUBEN MAMOULIAN: “The more we learn about other
people, the more we understand them, and the more we un
derstand them, the more we dislike them.”
enthusiastic about.”
He hasn’t felt one of those
enthusiastic surges in a long
time now. Mamoulian feels
that movies have fallen on evil
— or, at least, unimaginative
— days.
He says that movies are like
gunpowder, and cites a line
from a Broadway play he
directed — Eugene O’Neill’s
“Marco Millions” — to back
up his comparison.
“There’s a line in that
play,” he says, “about how
the Chinese invented gun
powder and, at first, used it to
make pretty fireworks. Then
a man held a firecracker too
long and lost a finger and they
realized it could be used for
destruction.
“Movies, at first, were used
for entertainment. Then
somebody realized that
movies could be used for other
purposes. Today, motion pic
tures are rarely used to enter
tain, they just promote sex
and violence.”
Mamoulian’s own films
were entertaining. He began,
in 1929, with the classic
“Applause.” Over the years,
he directed such great ones as
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,”
“Queen Christina,” “Becky
Sharp,” “The Gay
Desperado,” “The Mark of
Zorro” and “Silk Stockings.”
He also did one film about
violence, “City Streets” in
1931, which was about as non
violent as a film about
violence can be.
“Nature abhors a vacuum,”
Mamoulian says, “and movies
should abhor the obvious. I
think my films abhorred the
obvious. Today, in a movie, if
someone is shot, the directors
do the obvious — they show all
the blood. In ‘City Streets,’
there were seven murders.
But not one of them was
shown graphically.
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“The easiest thing is to
show the obvious.”
It is fashionable, these days,
to spout the cliche about how
the answer for civilization is
communication, how com
munication will bring peoples
together.
“I think the reverse is
true,” says Mamoulian. “I
think communication is the
source of a lot of our troubles.
The more we learn about
other people, the more we un
derstand them, and the more
we understand them, the
more we dislike them.
“There once was a famous
set designer, a Russian, a man
I brought over to do a
Broadway play with me. He
fell in love with an American
opera singer. She couldn’t
speak any Russian and he
couldn’t speak any English.
But they used sign language
and they fell in love.
“They were very happy, and
they got married. They were
still happy, without any com
munication. Then they learn
ed each other’s languages and
began communicating, and
they found out they disliked
each other and they
separated.
“That’s what I mean about
communication being the
source of our troubles.”
The outspoken director
thinks, however, that art is
the only hope for civilization.
"Civilization,” he says, "is
always at its lowest when art
is at its lowest. It flourishes in
times of great art. And great
theater. Today, because of the
international fear that the
atomic bombs could end
everything overnight, we are
living under the sword of
Damocles.
"We don’t create anything
except the most simple
things, and that applies to
movies now. Simple emotions,
simple films. I think our only
hope is for a resurgence of art
to pull us out. It’s the only
answer — politics has failed,
economics has failed, science
has failed. Maybe art can pull
us out.”
He has had some offers to
do television films, but has
turned them all down.
He -calls television “a
national addiction.”
“Television started as
entertainment,” he says, "but
has become an addiction I
must confess that I am just as
guilty of becoming an addict
as anyone else. When I'm
home on an evening and I am
tired, I turn on the set and I'll
watch anything — I’ll watch
for hours, and it's all dread
ful. ”
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Growing older
Aging deserves a new wrinkle
By Harold Blumenfeld
What is it about our per
sonal physical appearance
which marks us as “the older
people?”
Is it the general assumption
that all bald-headed men are
old, or that all old men are
bald-headed? I lost most of
my hair before I celebrated a
21st birthday. And there are
many men past 65 who have
retained a good shock of hair,
perhaps streaked with silver
or completely gray. Nothing
wrong with the color because
gray is a beautiful mixture of
black and white. And Bulwer
philosophized that. “It is not
(by) the gray of the hair that
one knows the age of the
heart.’’But young people who
have gone prematurely gray,
and even older folk, have
learned how to cover this up
with hair dyes demonstrated
frequently by TV commer
cials.
The majority of today’s ag-
French commies show new look
By NEA/London Economist News Service
PARIS - (LENS) -
Recently in Paris the Ukrai
nian mathematician, Leonid
Plyushch, allowed out of the
Soviet Union last month, gave
a harrowing account of his
two and a half years as a sane
man in the Soviet mental
asylum where he had been
sent for political dissidence.
Plyushch, who still considers
himself a marxist, thanked
the French Communist party
for helping to secure his
release.
The next day in Paris the
22nd congress of the Com
munist party began. Connec
the two events? The French
Communists certainly do. It
was, they say, more than a
coincidence that Plyushch
should be wheeled out for his
first press conference precise
ly a day before their congress.
In fact Plyushch has been en
joying the hospitality of a
French mathematicians’
organization and three weeks
is a short enough time for
anyone to recover from ex
periences like his.
But his revelation of the in
dignities he underwent in a
“hospital” full of murderers
and rapists, overseen by
attendants who are sadistic
common criminals, was a bad
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ing population are “walking
tall.” If I were bent over and
used a cane it would be a
throwback to my youth.
Thirty-five years ago I dis
located my sacro-lumbar
playing tennis and at that time
had to lean on a cane while I
shuffled around in a forward
tilt position. But not today.
William Shakespeare said,
“He that hath a beard is more
than youth, and he that hath
none is less than a man.”
Once upon a time a beard was
a venerable distinction and
decoration for older men. As a
boy we played a game
shouting “beaver” whenever
a bearded man passed by. To
day we’d go hoarse shouting
“beaver” watching the
parade of the chin-whiskered
young men.
What is it which really
makes us look old? Ah, maybe
it’s those tell-tale creases on
our faces which give away our
age. Many will claim those
wrinkles around the eyes and
advertisement for com
munism in practice, especial
ly at a time when the French
Communist party is
trumpeting its program of
liberties (“nobody should be
kept arbitrarily in a mental
asylum”) and formally shed
ding the hallowed leninist no
tion of the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
How seriously should one
take the new French Com
munist image? Is this con
ference as important, in a
French context, as the 20th
conference of the Soviet party
in 1956, when Khrushchev
denounced Stalin? The
French, as always, remain
politically skeptical.
According to one public opi
nion poll, 54 per cent of
French people regard the new
image as a tactical maneuver
and only 30 per cent think it
sincere. Another poll reports
that 46 per cent think that if
the Communists had any part
of political power they would
seek to eliminate their
Socialist partners.
Nevertheless, the same
percentage, 46 per cent, want
the Communists in govern
ment within the next five
years.
Whatever the polls’
reliability, the Communist
party, led by Georges
Marchais, is powerful and
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chins are the first signs of ag
ing, but I have seen many
young people quite wrinkled
after long over-exposure to
the sun trying to achieve that
swarthy patina they believe
gives them a healthy glow.
I was joined by a 13-year-old
political sage in front of my
television set when Ronald
Reagan announced his can
didacy for the Republican
Presidential Nomination. I
was told. “He’s too old to run
for President. Look at all
those wrinkles on his face!”
What are these facial
crevices which drive women,
and increasingly more men, to
the offices of plastic surgeons
for face lifts? My dictionary
defines wrinkles as creases. It
also provides a second
meaning: a wrinkle is an in
genious device or a clever in
novation. And for further ex
piation it has a quote, “The
wrinkles on her face showed
her age.”
We see wrinkles every day
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in baggy pants, auto fenders
. . . and on prunes. But let’s
accept the fact that, maybe as
we grow older, the advancing
years do wrinkle our skin.
However, it would be worse if
aging wrinkled our hearts,
minds and souls.
Victor Hugo said, “When
grace is joined with wrinkles,
it is adorable. There is an un
speakable dawn in happy old
age.” A word of caution
though: Be wary of friends
who compliment you about
looking young for you can be
sure they think you are grow
ing old. Let’s look upon our
age wrinkles as marks of dis
tinction and be thankful we’ve
lived long enough to acquire
them.
Someone told me wrinkles
are hereditary — parents get
them from their children. But
I’d rather believe Mark Twain
who said, “Wrinkles merely
indicate where smiles had
been.”
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